The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19

wrecked near Victor, by running over .
cow, turning the engine over and killing
Hugh Mclean, the fireman.
0ENERAL,
JOHN BRIoHT has signed the American
peace memorial In all 12S members Of the
House Of Commons have signed the docu-
ment and nine Of them have consented to
join the deputation which will take the me-
mortal to America.
GENERAL BouLANaRR has written letter
to his seconds in reference to his proposed
duel with n. Ferry, In which he says:
''Public opinion will judge between the one
who, . long distance OF, insults General,
and who will only grant derisory reparation,
and myself. who proposed to risk my life to
avenge my honor Is Q soldier"
TaR strike on the Midland railway in
England has collapsed, the Birmingham
engineers having returned to work.
PROF. TYNDALL has written another
scathing letter attacking Mr.. Gladstone.
He says that all the facts tend to verify the
fact that Gladstone is merely q resonant
mask through which John Morley blows
over the land his fanatical treason.
The London Standard says that there has
been no league meetings in ireland for the
last two Sundays, owing to the influence of
the Parnellite leaders, who desire to avoid
giving the Government any excuse for pro-
claiming the league.
The 7ag6lan Of Vienna says that General
Winterfold, who recently arrived at Gas
TEN from England, informed Emperor
william that the tumor in the Crown
Prince Frederick Williams throat was ap-
pearing again, and that another operation
would probably be necessary.
BARON BILLING, late French ambassador
to Sweden, was expelled from Alsace re-
Gently while visiting friends.
TIE wreaths of the French Patriotic
League have been placed on Editor Kat
koff's grave in Moscow.
JAMES g. BLAINE and his family have
reached Dublin. He will remain some time
in ireland.
BALTIMORE & Ohio common stock had an
other heavy fall ON the 9th, selling as low
for over five years.
The Grecian Government has quarantincd
against Brindisi.
A NUMBER of Tory peers threaten to re-
iect the amendments added by the House
of Commons to the Irish Land bill
EMPEROR WILLIAM was unable to receive
and bid farewell to his friends, on the occa-
sion of his departure from Gastein, owing
to his having famed himself by striking his
hip against . table, while STOPPING to pick
up paper.
ADvICEs from Honolulu to August 2 re-
ported all quiet in Hawaii.
GLADSTONE replies as follows to the last
attack of John Bright: TT is painful for
me to have my attention called to the at
tacks made upon me by MIR. Bright. My
desire is to bear them in silence and to re-
member only his patriotism and services,
together with his unwaverlng friendship
down to 1861
The imports Of iron and steel during the
fiscal year ended June 80 were greater than
ever before They were 100000 tons greater
than in 1885 and 1885 combined.
TWELVE new cases OF cholera and twelve
deaths were reported at Malta on the 10th.
AT Grimsby, Eng, Temple, the Ameri-
can, beat Lees in q quarter mile bicycle
race by five yards in forty and two-fifths
seconds. Temple also beat Lees in q mile
race by ten yards in three minutes and
eleven seconds.
Two petards were exploded on q staircase
Of the building occupied by the Spanish
Minister Of the Interior in Madrid on the
18th. No damage was done.
AN expedition has been sent to Central
Asia by st. Petersburg merchants to an
alyze the soils. and, If possible, establish q
cotton plantation.
A SHELL exploded at Waxholm fort, near
Stockholm recently. Nineteen men were
killed, and many others, including three
officers, wounded.
HENRY s. Ives, the railroad maguate, has
made an assignment, with liabilities
amounting to millions of dollars.
The centenary service to commemorate
the establishment Of the first Episcopate in
America, was given in Westminster Abbey,
London, on the 18th. Canon E. B. Hart
ford conducted the service, and the sermon
was delivered by the Bishop of Iowa.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August II numbered for
the United States ISL aud for Canada 90.
THE cholera epidemic in Italy shows q
decrease, especially in Catania The con.
dition OF some parts Of Sicily, however,
causes apprehension.
THE LATEST.
THE Canadian ateamera the Hastings and